Before Yale:Two-time All-Mission League selection at Harvard-Westlake High School… Recipient of the team’s most consistent player award as a senior and the captain’s award in his junior year… Helped lead Harvard-Westlake to the state finals as a sophomore and a second-place league finish as a senior… Played club soccer for Galaxy Banditz Premier.

Personal: Helped organize a visit by Harvard-Westlake to a Los Angeles hospital for children with cancer... Son of former Yale football star Kevin Czinger, the 1980 Ivy League Player of the Year and an All-America selection.